Sheriff Steube: If you want Arizona-type immigration law, you'll have to pay for it
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:57:00 -0700
BRADENTON If an Arizona-type immigration law passes in Florida, Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube is clear on his position: He better get the personnel to handle it.
Sarasota's Marian Morgan trying to limit evidence in fraud case
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:32:29 -0700
Lawyer moves to suppress papers seized in Sri Lanka
Florida Jail Traces Bomb Threat Using Securus Phone Technology
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:40:55 -0700
DALLAS, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of inmate communications services, today announced that its technology was instrumental in finding the source of a bomb threat made near the Sarasota County Jail on August 16, 2010. Using features within the inmate telephone system deployed by Securus Technologies, law enforcement personnel were able to quickly match ...
Health happenings: Aug. 31
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:57:58 -0700
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Violent crime falls on heels of gang crackdown
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:42:07 -0700
MANATEE After three years of gang racketeering prosecutions in Manatee County, investigators say violent crime is down.
Rift Imperils Ground Zero Mosque
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:49:50 -0700
New revelations about the owner of the Ground Zero mosque building could mean a split between him and the project's influential imam, making it unlikely to ever get built.
Access to records at stake
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:21:07 -0700
Getting information from Florida courthouses remains a quaint, old-fashioned experience compared
11 arrested in Sarasota gang crackdown
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:01:16 -0700
A task force of the Florida Attorney General's Office arrested 11 people in Sarasota Friday as part
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Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:53:54 -0700
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Task force: 11 arrested in Sarasota gang crackdown
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:27:11 -0700
Police make 11 arrests, seize drugs and recover a stolen car in a gang Task Force operation.
Law & Disorder: DNA links man to 2006 slaying
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:09:44 -0700
Melanie Regina Slappey was supposed to be at her graduation at North Florida Institute on July 28, 2006, but she never showed up. Three days later, her sister found the 35-year-old Jacksonville woman dead in her Fort Caroline Road apartment with a single gunshot to her head. An angry man's voice could be heard yelling on her answering machine. Now a 32-year-old Westside man has been arrested ...
Doctor defends his Englewood pain clinic
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:01:03 -0700
An Englewood pain management doctor who feels wrongly vilified because of the state's negative
Scott is GOP's pick in governor's race
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:24:52 -0700
Rick Scott, virtually unknown to Florida voters just five months ago, awoke today as the Republican
Florida governor: Scott defeats McCollum
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:38:36 -0700
Political newcomer Rick Scott rode his "let's get to work" message to a victory over Attorney General Bill McCollum.
Florida gov: Rick Scott beats McCollum for GOP nod
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:17:22 -0700
Rick Scott is the Republican nominee for Florida governor.
Everett woman arrested in Florida child murder cold case
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:10:15 -0700
EVERETT, Wash. - The babysitter of a 4-year-old girl who vanished more than a decade ago in Florida has reportedly been arrested in Everett, Wash. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports Melissa Harding Jones, 33, was captured thanks to the efforts of a group of retired investigators who took on the case. She's now charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in the presumed death of Pilar ...
It's hard labor but it's something
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:03:15 -0700
Rob Ellis is happy to have the honest money from mowing lawns, and proud to be working for himself. "I'm not trying to get rich off this," Ellis said. "I don't think anybody's getting rich."
GOP ads take aim at Sink
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:24:20 -0700
TALLAHASSEE Democrat Alex Sink has been Florida's chief financial officer for four years, but most voters probably wouldn't recognize her on the street.
POLICE REPORT: Sarasota chase of suspects ends with collision
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:02:00 -0700
SARASOTA -- A Sarasota Sheriff's deputy attempted to stop three burglary suspects driving a black
Bars, concerts, comedy and misc. listings
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:05:28 -0700
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